29 hydro power projects await CWC evaluation: Piyush Goyal.

As many as 29 hydro power projects with an overall capacity of 10,000 MW are awaiting appraisal from the Central Water Commission, the government said recently.

'29 hydel projects totalling 10,589.5 MW capacity are with the CWC for appraisal,' Power Minister Piyush Goyal said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.

As per the existing guidelines of CWC for multipurpose projects, appraisals are to be completed within 6 months for the states where the Central Design Organisation (CDO) exists.

It is 12 months for those states where CDO does not exist. Appropriate compliance of observations issued on different aspects have to be complied with by the concerned project developer.

Ten projects aggregating an installed capacity of 1159.5 MW are multipurpose water resource projects having both irrigation and power component, Goyal said.

He added that 19 hydel projects of 9430 MW capacity have only power component.

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